Georg Obrecht
Georg Obrecht (born March 25, 1547 in Strasbourg , † June 7, 1612 ibid) was a German camerawoman and professor of law. In 1604 he was ennobled for the first time by the emperor, since then by Obrecht ; 1609 elevation to the state count palatine .
Life
He was born the son of the City Counsel of Strasbourg. From 1565 he studied philosophy and later law in Tübingen . In 1570 he moved to France, where he continued to study law in Besançon, Dole, Paris and Orléans . In 1574 he received his doctorate in Basel . The following year he returned to Strasbourg and became Professor of Law at the Strasbourg Academy. He stayed there until the end of his life. His main works include the Fünff Secreta , reports on the financing of the Turkish war on behalf of Emperor Rudolf II . He also wrote on topics of civil law, Roman legal history, and feudal law. In retrospect, he is one of the most important so-called older cameraists. It is an early forerunner of statistical economics, as it was later continued with William Petty and David Ricardo .
Works
- De necessaria defensione ( la ). Andreas Rietsch, Strasbourg 1604.
literature
- Georg Obrecht: Five different Secreta Politica. Of employment / maintenance and increase of good policy / and of fair / lawful and necessary increase / of every regent annual gradient and income o. V., Strasbourg, 1617. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
- Bertram Schefold: Introduction to Five Different Secreta Politica of Employing / Maintaining and Increasing Good Policey . Hildesheim: Olms-Weidemann, 2003. ISBN 3-487-11880-7
- Thomas Simon: Good policey / images of order and objectives of political action in the early modern era . Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2004. ISBN 3-465-03313-2 ; Pp. 290-297
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Obrecht, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 114-116.
- François Joseph Fuchs: Obrecht, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 404 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Obrecht, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cinematographer and professor of law |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1547 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1612 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |